Dolphins Training Camp 2021 Day 7 Recap

Here in training camp one, we'll take a return to the deep passing game and here from to a Tongue by Loo Jachem Grant and Coach Flores on the vertical game. Plus two A talks timing, chemistry off season, and the

offensive system catering to his skill set. As we do every day, we'll break down the individuals who shined, the top performer of the day, the matchup of the day, a couple of your questions, and we'll tell you about some of these sacks that occur as a product of good communication and coverage from the safety position from Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is

the Drive Time Podcast. We normally start the show with the housekeeping, but we'll get to that here in just one minute, We're gonna go with the best thing I saw today or heard today, and it was Jachem Grant talking to me and some other reporters after practice. And you might recall a podcast I did with Jachem last offseason where he told me some cool stuff about dad life, but also showing no mercies to his kids when they play video games together. So I asked him, Jachim, how's

the family doing. Here was his answer. I was doing great, man, and I love him. My son let me have you the other day he just asked me, you know, Dad, when you're coming home, and can you just come home and stay? I can't, you know? And with him in autisty, he never expressed his feeling name, how's the first time you ever expressed his filings in And it hit me hard. So um, but man, they're doing greats are doing good. Hey,

They're just like, hey, Dad, you come home. I'm like one day, uh when if I got to get a break, and they're like, okay, whatever, that right? But my son he let me have it for like fifteen minutes yesterday. And it's tough to transition from that. But we'll hear more from Jachem later in the podcast. Let's go ahead and get to the housekeeping. No roster moves to mention, but as far as the health of some players goes.

Will Fuller was out there today on the exercise bike and getting around some of the players and the receiver's group and otherwise. He was carrying a football with him all day and he would throw it up to himself in the air, spin it on the turf like you do after you catch a first down or a touchdown, and just find different ways to keep himself busy. Jalen Phillips was also on the bike congregating with some of

his teammates throughout the course of the day. Savant Okbed was still in the red no contact jersey and Davonte Parker was back out there too. He had his first team period work, including a reception on a deep end hut from Tua Tongue Baloa. Looked like a curl possibly a dig I'm not sure, but he found some space and to have put up between the one and the one on his jersey. Good to see one to eleven

once again. Alan Hearns was shaking up and practice, but he returned and made a few plays after coming back, so he looks good. Finally, coach addressed Andrew Van Ginkle and called the linebacker day today this morning and his press conference and that nine press or. He said Andrew was already in getting treatment and taking care of that thing. So after all the running, we got back to a lot more passing and tons of eleven and eleven in

this particular practice, especially in the red zone. And yesterday I talked about the run game and how there wasn't any passing and most of those periods besides one or two sprinkled in here and there. I was curious to ask coach about how they balanced the evaluation of what guys are doing compared to what the results are. And remember I said Jamal Perry had jumped the gun on the same route in the same period three days in a row. Those two things made me kind of curious.

Let's go ahead and go to coach here. Um, yeah, you guys cheat the drill. That happens, you know, Uh, But I think we just need to keep the drills moving. And there's always an element to a driller. You can do um to force the guy not to normally goes in. We go out, go out, go go deep. So um, there is an element of that. I think it's up to us as as a staff to try to eliminate

that as much as possible. But I think, um, you know, I think we just need to continue to um work the techniques, work the fundamentals, and I think whether they cheat the drill, not cheat the drill. I mean, we're evaluating the fundamentals and techniques. Now. You know, they may look a little cleaner because they're anticipating it, but um and not truly reacting. Um, that's part of the evaluation. Also, you know, it's is that a true rep or we count that one? I mean, player may think so, but

we we may not be counting that one. So. And another hot topic across the league after a brawl broke out a Giant's camp on Tuesday, was the training camp scuffles that inevitably happened every year almost across the league. And I thought Flora's response to a question about that was insightful as far as how he takes every opportunity

to teach and it's still discipline in his ball club. Remember, Flora's took one of the league's most penalized teams in twenty nine rather and has been the top five each of the last two years in both total penalties and penalty yardage. Let's go ahead and go to coach. Yeah. I mean, look, you put pads on things, get chippy. It's a chippy game. It happens. I think. I think it's also a game where you gotta keep your poise. Um. And that's kind of what I you know, talked to

the players about. And it's something um, you know, we talked about as as as a staff, we talked to talk to the players about, like we know, it's gonna get somebody's gonna be on the ground, somebody's gonna do a little too much. I mean, we had a little bit of yes today, um. And your natural reaction is

to you know, react and you know, fight back. Um. But as we know, you know, it's normally the second guy who gets the penalty, and and in those instances, we've gotta keep our boys and we try we have to practice that so uh, you know, inevitably it's gonna be you know, some kind of fight out on the field, and I just gotta learn from it and get better. But we try to use it as a as a

as a as a learning experience. You know, when it happens, because when it happens in the game, it could be costly, and you know, we we just try to use it as a learning learning too. Let's go ahead and pivot now into the position by position breakdown. And I veered from the format yesterday in a way that I liked, but I still think I think going top down from the roster like this is the best way. So we start with the quarterbacks, and the theme of the quarterback

and passing game. Really all of camp has been the vertical passing game, and a lot of that has to do with location and man, that's been the name of the game through seven days of practice for two a tongue by lower. Before I start talking about my observations, let's go ahead and go to coach Flores, who was asked about the vertical game at his morning press conference

on Wednesday. I think he's it's something he's he's he's placing emphasis on We've placed an emphasis on pushing, not pushing the ball down field, but um, taking advantage of those opportunities if they're there. Um. But you know, like always, you wanna you know, have good fundamentals, good techniques, good mechanics. Go through his progression and if it's there and it's open, we can throw them open and take a shot. I mean, we're not gonna make him if we don't throw him.

So I think he's taking more, taking more shots down field, and I think you know, as a as a you know, hopefully he's getting more confidence that we can make some of those throws. But at the same time, you know, not every not every throw is gonna be a fifty yard or sixty yard or so. Um. You gotta make good decisions, check it down when we need to check it down and throw the intermediate route. We need to throw the intermediate route. Got to throw it away and

take the incompletion. We need to do that. Um. And you know, you just need reps. So we'll just trying to give more as many reps as possible. That's the same with all the quarterbacks for Kobe Reid, really all players at all position, but you know, specific to too and in the downfield throws. That's would be my take

on it. And why don't we go ahead and hear from the man himself as far as the elevation of deep passing in this training camp so far and what two things has really contributed to the success with a deep game. I guess to that, I say, I've been playing football, you know, since I was little. Um, I've been playing quarterback position for as long as I can remember. Really, it's just coming out and working on your timing with the guys, you know, seeing the speed of um, you know, layers,

you know, not everyone's really fast. UM. And I guess just coming out here and being able to practice and work on it, that's what's helped two of them feel to the question about his level of comfort in the offense, and he said, I do feel very comfortable in the offense, but also mentioned that it's about putting good days together

and continuing building that success. I found this quote very interesting as a reporter asked to about something Jerome Baker said yesterday regarding to a going into the linebackers room and asking them questions about what they see with his game and how he can get better. He was asked, what can you gain from those conversations with the linebackers and the defenders. For me, it's it's being able to see their alignment and their positioning. Um, you know, why

do they align this way? And you know, for me, it gives me an edge to know where to go with the ball lot quicker and it speeds up my process. Um. Yeah, but I think it's always good to nitpick the other side. Um. You know, we have like a veteran like J Mac being able to ask g Mac some questions, um, you know, and then also seeing how how they this guy things. But yeah, and you know, it's not just the deep ball.

It's touch passes to the back pylon for twenty yards where you've got a receiver five yards deep in the end zone by the time the ball gets there, and

a dB who's three yards deep trailing that route. You've got that five yard window and the ball has to have a certain hump to it, otherwise the trail defender gets underneath it and disrupts the line of sight of the receiver or causes the incompletion, or worse, he makes a play on it and catches it or tips it up in the air, and that's when things get really dangerous from there. And this is where you really see the talent of two. I think these types of throws

and it extends to different areas of the field. And there was one particular play where the defense dialed up pressure and it was more rushers than blockers, and that becomes dependent on the receiver to uncover and for the quarterback to figure out which guy is gonna uncover. And on this particular play to a lays it out to an open space and Jalen Waddle is coming across on

a drag route. A drag routs when you get off the line, you go to the middle of the formation and you basically run right in behind the D line under the linebackers, similar to the over route, but it's much closer to the line of scrimmage and the ball and the receiver intersect there and since the pressure came, well, there's no one there to tackle him, and he gone at that point because you just don't tackle Jerlan Waddle with pursuit from the backside or really with having only

war and two guys out in front of him. He turned this thing up when and untouched for a touchdown for twenty yards. I mean, we saw him do this all the time in college. As far as two agoes putting the ball to a spot and catching that thing, we also saw some last year. So how do they find this chemistry to know the ball is going to a spot? And how we can go ahead and make that chemistry happen on game day. It has to do with some of the work they did in the off season.

Two attributes a large portion of that credit to give them some groundwork here heading into training camp and now it's all about improving every single day. But here is too on the idea of the off season workouts and how it benefit of this offense. I think being able to get with the guys throughout the off season has helped tremendously. Um with the timing, But I think until you you're able to put the pads on, you know, come out and it really work against you know, a

an opposing team or guys on the opposite side of you. Um, you know, that's when I think those things really come up. In In Show two of them had they follow up question regarding the deep ball and whether or not he had to make certain decisions to throw the deep ball. Here's two on what goes through his process, his thought process rather when deciding to go deep, intermediate or short. The guy's open, I'm going to throw it to him.

You know that. That's That's what I could say to that. Um, I would say it was it's very very much no different than you know, my time I had at Alabama, you know, throwing deep buzz and how many times have we said on this particular podcast that to UH set

records for deep and vertical passing. There was articles on Saturday Down South Daniel Jeremiah talked about on the Move the Sticks podcast about the prolific downfield passing of Bama under two a tongue by Low and how when he got there, Bama transitioned from that defense and run heavy team they had been for decades and centuries really to being the most prolific downfield passing team really in the history of college football until Joe Burrow and l s

U came along and kind of took some of those records away, But this point still stands. They were very prolific throwing the ball down the football field. So in this practice he hits some fades from twenty yards one to Jalen Waddle, one to Isaiah Afford. You saw the video of that on our Miami Dolphins Twitter page. He's attacking vertically, he's throwing with drive on certain balls where

it's necessary. He had a rip up the seam to Waddle in two minute where you can see the linebacker get depth to his landmark off the snap, and so Waddle takes the free access he has because there's no reroute there into the second level and to it, catches the snap, plants that left foot, the drive foot into the ground, and drives this football from the far hash And because you've got to get it out of there before the safety can come down, he's he's just gonna

drive that thing as hard as he can and it just is on the money, splits the one and the seven on his jersey. And we've seen that a lot so far. With two, he's layering passes two spots to give guys the ultimate yak opportunity of DS. And I had this in my notes planning for the podcast today, and then two I went ahead and talked about it

on a question at his post practice presser. Let's go ahead and hear from two on throwing the football too spots, knowing where it's supposed to go and throwing a guy open um. I mean, I personally think you know that those those two kind of fall fall hand in hand. Um, you know, you know where the guy is supposed to be. He has a guy right on him, but you throw it to the spot, you know, and he has just that inch of separation from the guy and he makes

that catch. You know. I think that's what it means. So really good stuff there, and some more good stuff from Barry Jackson of the Miami Herald, who tweeted the two had been six touchdowns to zero picks over the last two days in the eleven on eleven periods and hadn't thrown an interception since day one of practice last Wednesday, and he did have one today that was just slightly over the arch outstretched arm of Albert Wilson. I actually thought he'd get a hand on that ball, but he didn't.

And Javon Holland more on him here in just a minute was able to corral the past. But the efficient you while pushing the ball down the field has been there big time, and I really thought this was to

his best day so far. The location, whether he's coming off the top of his drop, attacking the line of scrimmage and working in either direction as he kind of pushes the line of scrimmage, throwing on the move off play pass off boot action, the ball was just getting right into the proverbial tire swing a lot today and

there were three occasions. Three of them. I talked about it on Twitter where Kyle Crabs, the tremendous host of the Lockdown Dolphins podcast and close personal friend of mine, we both take our eyes off the field, look at each other, lock on and we do the Antonio ben Derris meme where he kind of leans back from the computer. You guys know what that means. So fun, fun day of offense. I also really liked read set to day. You know, he can really reach back and throw the gas.

He's developed a nice report so far with Kirk Merritt, and it reminds me of a couple of years back. And I honestly am drawing a blank on the names of these guys, Like I remember Demoras string Fellow was one of them, but remember when I think it was Brandon Dowdy at quarterback. Maybe it was after Pat Devlon for sure, but he kept having these big fourth quarters with the cast of receivers. And I'm eager to get a look at Sinet in those games because he can

flat out slinging. I think his arms gonna give some teams some trouble. In the preseason, he also got free on a scramble for an eight yard or so touchdown run in the red zone period, so you can see the dual threat guy that he was back in college at San Diego. And then Jacoby percent hit a couple of deep balls. We'll talk more about that as the podcast goes along with That's always good to see from QB two out there. Speaking of the deep balls as

we pivot towards the wide receivers. Jachem Grant has also been tremendous in the vertical game and pulling down catches this training camp so far, especially of the contested catch variety. And I asked, Jachim, what does this offense do to suit what you do best? And I want to go ahead and play some audio here from you from Jachim who answered my question about the one thing he focused on worked on this offseason and how this offensive system

kind of suits his skill set. Um, I think dy especially on the vertical balls deep balls, I think me too, and some of the Jacoby we have connected on a lot of deep balls. They've been doing a good job giving me that chance to use my sweet the album the guys and and that's exactly what they did, and we were connected on a lot of them at really focused on you wanted to get better at UH most definitely just UH, I'll say, consistently catching the deep ball.

You know, as you see it in the past. UH, I dropped a couple of deep balls that I'm not proud of. And and as you can see out here at the camp I've been, you can tell that I've been working on because I haven't dropped one yet and he's been getting good at generating space out here. In practice, had a really nice comeback route on Byron Jones and the one on ones and by the way, very grateful to see one on one drills again, my favorite part

of practice besides the team period. He had another really good route in that period where he got on top of the dB and stacked him. And what that means is you put the defensive back on your back so that when he has to go through you to get to the ball, he has to go through you and

gets the flag if he does that. And we know that with Jachim at five A, even though he has gone up and made the high point play before, your best bet is going to be to get him and stride and let him run and two drops this one ass in beautifully over the defensive back and before the end line for another touchdown connection from those two and speaking of players having a good camp, Albert Wilson caught a few balls in the team period, including a nice

adjustment where he was on the move with the defender out in front. Then he slams on the brakes and two of must have seen the exact same thing because he threw the ball to a spot where Wilson had become stationary. Just a real nice connection there, and that goes back to the sound clip we played for you on yesterday's podcast with alb Wilson talking about the offseason

and throwing together. Wilson also caught a dig and a curl in the team period from two A not in red zone, just on the filth full field work and Kirk Merritt continues to look really really good out here. He's catching everything Senet throws. And he also got free on a couple of passes from Brissette and also hooked up with two A once in the one on ones. So he's been challenge for everybody who's come across him.

Strong hands, strong up the stem to hold the line and the athletic ability to really create separation at the catch point. Isaiah Ford continues to have a strong, strong camp. He pulled an one of the long balls from Brissette with tight coverage from iguan Agny on his back going to the ground, hanging onto the football, and he later

got into the honey hoole to cover two honeyhole. We heard Byron Jones talk about that a few weeks back over the cornerback under the safety and Brissette rocketed the ball in there and he hung on through more contacts. So strong hands that Isaiah has were on display, and igman Agny had some tight coverage and other reps on Isaiah four. These two were nearly the matchup of the day,

but I decided to go in another direction. Alan Hearns went down early in practice as we mentioned, but he returned and man, he made some tough catches as he has through camp as he has as a pro, including one fantastic grab on a deep ball from Reid Senet.

We pivot over to the running backs and another good day from these guys, particularly Miles Gaskin, who, speaking of the deep ball, ran a wheel route in the team period seven on seven and had an absolute dime dropped to him from tah just over the top of the underneath coverage and in there before the safety could come over and close. You find that area of the field and you can get it in there before the safety gets over. That's when you really start to open up

the offense. And Miles had a couple of nice gains, including one where he burst through the line off an arm tackle and took off. He also had a nice run in red zone where he pushed the pile for three or four yards on a second goal run to put the offense up inside the two yard line. Jared Oakes, I thought I had a good day and you can

just feel his presence when the pads come on. He's not gonna go out of bounds and he's gonna lower that shoulder and he's gonna drop it on you and make sure you have you feel him when you tackle him. He was His big run was due in large part to his kind of bull and a China shop mentality, just trucking through arm tackle attempts. You can feel that power to when they hit the bags in the fundamentals

and individual drills. He's a hammer. But I thought he also showed a good burst after contact and really does a good job of keeping his feet underneath him through that contact and then Carl Tucker scoring a little pot pass inside That was pretty cool to see from the big rookie out of Alabama onto the tight ends. I thought this was Durham Smite's best day so far. He had a great block on that long gask And run

and another one on a Jareddokes run. He also caught a screen pass from tah and was patient behind his blocks to pick up fifteen yards from a plus twenty yard line to get him down to the five. There was a one on one rep against Eric Row where he just engaged the contact and got off the coverage right at the top of the route for a reception.

And speaking of that, Hunter Long did that yesterday. He made some more place today to including a really nice contested catch going against Brandon Jones and one on ones from Tah. It was a deep out and Long showed the concentration to haul that thing in and work the

sidelines to get the feet in. The ball was thrown just out of the reach of Jones where only Hunter could get it, and he did his best play and team was another shot from Tah an absolute frozen rope where he gets into that honey hoole again we referenced earlier, which requires a lot of velocity on those throws, and two of splits the eight and the four to find his rookie tight end and finally along the offensive line.

Big fan of Austin Jackson's day today, he had a pass pro rep against Brennan Scarlett, who's been really good this training camp, where he stopped the upfield rush, then worked back inside to forth the counter move, and then later did the exact opposite Scarlett tries to go with a bullrush, he absorbs it and then works vertical to hold the edge and pass pro to give to a

some time to throw. Both Gaskin and Dokes had big runs off his side too, and I could see Jackson's man kind of come detached once the ball went past them and chase the play from the back. That's always a good sign for an offensive lineman. Larnel Coleman gets in the notes today. He creates some space on one of gaskins rips and had some pass some good pass pro work against some of the team's more accomplished pass rushers, one in particular on Vince Beagle where he held his

own good work there. From the seventh round, Rookie Solomon Kinley had a couple of reps. He has a couple of reps every practice, I should say, where he swallows someone up hole with a block out the sun type of block at the second level. More of that today from him. Robert Hunt has a lot of these blocks I mentioned with Austin where the defender has to turn around and chase back the other way because he's so imposing, and once he gets his paws on you, it's good

night at that point. I had a note that Scurra dug out the one tech to open a lane inside, and I thought Dieter did well against some of these guy eyes. I mean, this defensive tackle group is so tough, so these centers, you know, they get wins. I really note that down and Scura and Dieter had a couple on the day. Onto the defense up front. Emmanuel Agba had some nice work in the run game. Again, that's an underrated part of his game that I think has shown up the last couple of days as well as

it did last season. Adam Butler continues to work against both the run and the pass, and on one particular Miles Gaskin run. He gets to the gap before Gaskin gets where he's aiming to go, and then he has to bend it back and hit the teeth of the defense where the help is and he gets no gain on that. Butler's get off and the penetration he gets every single day really stands out to me every day.

Ray Kuan Davis had another big day. I thought he stacked up a couple of runs in the early portion, but I think what impressed me most was when they were running through fundies, the fundamental drills. He raps and lifts John Jenkins and it looked like me picking up my one year old twenty pound daughter, like a three pound man, just picking him up with no problem. Like crazy strength from ray Kuan Davis. And that plays every

single day out here as well. Speaking of strength, Zack Seiler continues to prove to be really tough to move in the running game. He got some more pressure on the quarterback today too. He absolutely blew up a screenplay with John Jenkins at one point. Really the size, explosive

combination of kind of the entire defensive line. It puts the offensive line, not just to Miami but every offensive line they'll face in such conflict the moment the ball is snapped, and I think we really see that when they get to play somebody else, we'll see how different offensive lines react to the depth and the waves and the strength of this d line. And Christian Wilkins is

part of that too. He continues to make plays both inside and out, and as coach mentioned, he can play all over the line and he has also if you see this idea that he's on the second team like no like. Lineups are rotated all the time, especially the first week of training camp, for instance, and that group is so deep that someone has to roll with the twos like Butler, Seiler and and Davis have done it too.

Wilkins has been a seven snap player each of his first two years in the league, and he looks better now than he ever has, So I'm not trying to hear any word of that. I asked Christian after practice about the relationship between the defensive line and the linebackers with regards to the running game, and I thought he gave me a very insightful answer. Let's go to Christians. Yeah, definitely. Um, you know, we were working and we work together you

know what I mean. And we gotta work in cohesions. Uh. You know, if I do my job right, the backers make plays. If you know, if they're doing their job, I'm gonna make a play. So you know, it's it's definitely a team effort. We're all gonna work together and be coordinated. Um. And definitely when we you know, break down film watch them together, it's like, oh, like you really get to see the big picture. Sometimes when you're

just out there practicing, you don't necessarily see it. But then it's nice when you go back and watch the tip and you're like, oh, I took this double team, so now this backer can run free and make this play and if he shoots the gap and I'm free or like whatever it is. Um, So you know, it's definitely good to to uh to see that. And we got to be on point together. So that was the

inside back to the outside. I mentioned Scarlett having some battles with Austin Jackson, but he had some wins throughout the day, and not just with Jackson. I thought he had several pressures and I thought two I did a good job of mitigating some of those. Vince Bagel also had a good amount of pressure today on the quarterback.

I've said this before, but man, he can really flatten that edge and corner around that tackle and and really get that the area from him in the quarterback really condensed that space, and it's good to see these guys pick it up off the edge without Van Ginkle and without Jalen Phillips out there. And Chad Griffin had another couple of nice speed reps as a pass rusher. Again, I'm sure reads to that is probably tired of seeing

fifty three flash in his face. Also, Jason Strowbridge got him for a QB hit in one of the team periods as well, a would be QB hit. I should say, we do not hit the guys in the red jerseys. At linebacker, Sam Maguavin had himself a day. Man. He was coming clean up the middle of a pass rusher

against the running game. He had a rep where he bulldozed the back and pass pro Pat Laird was in there and he was getting depth and width and coverage and handling those responsibilities and sticking his nose in there against the run. Really good day and a really strong camp so far from number forty nine. I think eg Van is a good example of something coach said before practice about the varied skill sets of the linebackers on this Dolphins roster. Let's go to coach. Yeah, we made

a couple additions to the linebacker room, Duke Riley McKinney. Uh, and we we liked the group. They work hard, they're tough, they're smart, they're competitive. You know it's important to them. Um, you know that over you know it's it's early, so over the first few days of training camp and actually know I shouldn't say that going back to the springing O t A s Um, it's a group that works

well together or they're trying to work well together. And um, they've all got a different skill set that we can potentially use, whether it's pass game, pass rush, run defense, kicking game. Ah. So again, very competitive room. You know the new guys plus Bake, plus Roberts, plus months and plus Hega Vaughan. Um, I mean I think it's a competitive group. And up we continue to just build and take it one day at a time and try to improve every day. Well, hopefully I have a solid group thumpers,

coverage blitzers, special teamers. Like you mentioned, You've got so many guys that can do multiple things. And speaking of that, then we've got the secondary to go ahead and finish up here with as far as the positions before specialist and I want to cover this theme of sorts today where we've talked about some plays getting blown dead because the quarterbacks don't throw the football and why don't they throw it? Well, because there's good coverage down the field,

you're not gonna put the ball in harm's way. I try to pay more attention to some of that downfield, and man, you can see the way these guys work together in tandem, and we talked about g A and the communication and the way they communicate with the cornerbacks and make sure they're carrying their man to a certain landmark to then get picked up by the coverage over the top. And Jason McCardy has been very strong in this regard in my opinion, so has Javon Holland. And

we saw some of his range again today. More him in just a moment. Brandon Jones too, and man, I love watching him play downhill, but today he had some good coverage work as well, like the steam shot from two or to durham smythe A route that two has been hitting with regularity so far in training camp. But Jones was in good trail technique underneath got the hand up in Smith's face and so the ball sailed a little bit high because he was disrupted at the catch point.

And then after practice we had McCarney meet with the media and he talked about the mentor ship and the hunger and the intelligence of those young safeties and Brandon Jones as well as Javon Holland, who we talked about here. Yeah, for sure, a ton of shries and I think, uh, my interactions with him early on when we first got here, you can see the intelligence. And I think that's the toughest thing as especially a rookie, of being able to learn the defense, because as of safety, uh, you're the

key communicator. You're the guy who has to get checks out, who have to tell guys what to do, So you have to be able to master the defense. And early on when I first jumped on the zoom calls, you saw that from him. Whenever a question came his way, he knew the answer, he knew what to anticipate, and you can see it out here on the field as we wall and he's making more and more plays. He's a hell of an athlete and he's a fun guy to be around. Uh. I call him Canada. He's spent.

That's where he was born, so we got referred on as Old Canada. But he's making a ton of strides and it's fun to watch him and a lot of the younger guys out here. I mean, you don't need my evaluation. That was perfect, calling Oh Canada the instinctual guy that he that he is, and and noticing it right away in those zoom calls. Very cool stuff there from mccordy talking about Javon Holland, who again we're gonna

talk about more in just one second. I want to play some audio for you guys about the challenge of going from playing receivers to playing tight ends as a safety. And we'll see how this sound goes, because well, why don't we go ahead and play the audio and I'll tell you the story afterwards. It's pretty funny. A lot of his body position, you know, the smaller guys, you're you're just the same size. You can boy them up

the tight ends. You kind of gotta get out of it away and use your speed to your advantage soul. It's a little bit of a technique thing, but figuring it out as we go. So the reason I wanted to play that for you guys was because one he gave you a great answer about playing tight ends and backs compared to receivers as a safety compared to a corner. But you might have heard that voice as my question

was being asked by by me. That was also my voice on the loudspeaker who recorded a weather warning to leave the stands and to leave the practice field because lightning is in the area. And as I'm asking Jason the question, that thing came on and I said, oh, hey, that's me, and he looked at me and laughed, like, what the hell are you talking about? So a fun moment. They're finishing up in the secondary. Terrell Bonds got himself another I n T this time in the one on

ones and that's hard to do. That's a very tough trial to get a pick in. He undercut a throw from Jacoby Brissette to grab this one, and then Javaris Davis had more plays on the football. He's had a very nice camp so far. He drove on a dig route to Robert Foster from Jacoby Brissette in the one on one portion of practice for a pass breakup, and then later on the play where Hearns got shaken up, he elevates and catch just the football, but Davis gets in there and separates his hands for the p BU.

Trill Williams had a great recovery play on deep shot to Kirk Merritt where he got a step behind him, but Williams came up underneath and broke it up. Stay in the play and get yourself a hand on the football. Finally, Nick Needham is having a really strong camp so far. He stayed in the hip pocket of Jillen Waddle on an out route, something that has given every cornerback here at camp an issue, and he got the p BU on that play. He had a play on the football

every day so far of training camp. And before we get to Javon Holland and the matchup of the day, the matchup of the specialist, Jason Sanders hit the upright today once his first miss of camp. That's my fault. I jinked him, but he was good on all the others. And then Michael Polarady put on an absolute show. Four straight punts that were perfect or nearly perfect. Three kicks that were down inside the three yard line. One hit

the ten and bounced in to the one. The other two had backs been that checked up at the one or two yard line, and then they just basically stayed flat right there. And then the fourth one he hits inside the pie lam which just barely nicked inside of that thing for a touchback. He was a quarter inch Charlie Conway from down at the one yard line. Once again, He's been terrific so far, and now you're a prime

time matchup of the day. Matchup of the day. To a tongue of Byalo versus Javan Holland, I talked about to a throwing two spots and beating the safety's really with anticipation because safety has gotta follow the quarterback's eyes to the football, and a lot of jockeying between both those two positions as both scored some wins on this day. But I like seeing Javon's range on some of the deep to intermediate stuff and his ability to come from depth and disrupt the passing game and come in under

control for sound tackling in the run game. Both those things stick out, but as far as the results. Finally getting an I n T that I felt like was coming because he was getting over the top and to the football a lot. And to get that first I n T off to in a team period, the first one to get one since last Wednesday. I mean that spans over seven days and hundreds of throws. So great work from the two youngsters. Let's speed through top performers.

Ris we're getting short on time to a tongue Byalo Reads Senet talked about the way they through the football all day long. Jared oakes the past. Come on, he looks very strong and powerful. Miles Gaskon had some more work in the past game shifty in the running game. Nick Needham continues to get plays on the football. Isaiah Ford went out and got a ton of catches today, going up top and making big plays down the field. Kirk Merritt shows up every single day. He's in there

as well. Jachem Grant the one on one period, he was fantastic in Tworell Bonds and Javarro Stavius both had plays in the football. They make their way in here again. Sam Ego Van had a big day. Thought Adam Butler was in the backfield a lot today. Javon Holland just talked about him. Laarnel Coleman is in there for some good work he had in pass pro and in the running game. Austin Jackson and Michael Pollardi are your top

performers of the day. Two questions here from Twitter. The first listener question comes in from Kevin Gerrard and he asks about Jason mccordy, who we covered already in the podcast. How has he looked at safety and also what's a percentage breakdown of Noah mun Agny playing inside and outside? Well, answer the first one second one first here, the coaches talked about him cross training, so he does do both, but he's been working a lot on the perimeter like

he was in college with mccordy. I think the best way to answer that is to rehash some of the stuff we talked about with the walkthrough periods, or fighting over natural rubs and picks and those those types of bunch drills, or just seeing some of those coverage sacks we talked about it. I mean, these occur with a quarterback doesn't feel good about the receiver where he is at the moment or coming open, and I think a lot of that has to do with McCarty, holland Jones

and what they've done in the back end. I would add Eric Row there, but he's just all over the place, so it's hard to mention him in one specific spot. Our second question here comes from the Apple podcast reviews. Remember if you put a question on Apple Podcasts in there, we're gonna answer on the podcast. I'll put him on there, give us a five star rating. We'll go ahead and get the question answered here on Drive Time. And this one comes from the best name I've read on these

mail bags yet, cool Kids table. Do you see this explosive offense working once the pressure on the quarterback starts? This week in practice, like Mike Tyson said, everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth. Well, with two padded days of practice in the books, I can say so far yes. And I realized these reviews don't always populate the same day that you put them on there, so hopefully this is still relevant when you hear the podcast. But I thought today especially the ball

came out quickly. And you know, the part that I think makes it most feasible come the season is a quick twitch of your quarterback and today, it seems like there's a hundred pass rushers across the league that can really get the job done and put pressure on you. And so the big deal, the big way to get away from that heat is the quarterback consistently finding the

ways to mitigate that pressure with their pocket mobility. And people confuse that for you know, the Lamar Jacksons and the Kyler Murray type of mobility that they've displayed in their careers, and those guys with two a rank near the top of the league enforced missed pressures last season.

But I'm talking about that Brady or Marino mobility the traditional pocket passers, and not making comparisons there other than just to say the ability to see where the danger is, how to get to a spot too makes the rush irrelevant, and then have the ability to get the mechanics back to where they were before the pressure got there, to

get set and to make the play from there. So as far as College vale euation goes to, it was one of the best I ever had studied in that arena, and then this week of practice I think really has shown me more of the same. Then on the other end, we've seen Waddle Grant Wilson, A bunch of guys that can make catches in the short intermediate area and then food they're off to the races. So I think, yes, cool kids, table. I do think it can and will carry over. All right, that's gonna be my time on

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